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Job OverviewWe have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Midwife to join our highly motivated Midwifery team in Glangwili Maternity Services, Carmarthen. With 2600 births per year we are a team who are enthusiastic, motivated and enabled to deliver high quality maternity care to women and their families.If you join our team, you will not only enjoy a robust induction package, but you will be afforded full rotational opportunities within the unit, with opportunities to work within the alongside Midwifery Led Unit. If you have particular career aspirations, we want to hear them and support you to develop in your chosen direction. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to bring your wealth of knowledge and experience to our maternity service.Our maternity service is continually changing and evolving to meet the needs of the population and ensure women/birthing people and their families have a positive birthing experience. We are a very friendly and supportive team who welcome innovative ways of working and new ideas.You will be joining our team at a pivotal time within the service with a new labour ward having opened this spring. The labour ward has seven birthing rooms and six bedded Enhanced Monitoring Unit. The service is undergoing further enhancements with the development of two new obstetric theatres due to complete mid 2023.Main duties of the jobWe strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset, we engage with our staff and empower everyone, at all levels, to discuss ideas and initiate change to offer improvements in our care. If you join our team you will have high quality training and development to help you grow in your career.If you join our team, you will have access to excellent opportunities including;

• Developmental programmes for all members of the team that are individualised depending on need
• Leadership development at all levels
• Health Board supported development opportunities
• Career progression & development
• Support for Masters/further study
• Involvement in national research projects

This is a permanent vacancy for a band 6 Midwife, with both full and part time working hours available.Working for our organisationHywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;
• Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;
• 48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;
• Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
• Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.

Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.By submitting your application to NHS Jobs/Trac, you are giving your consent for elements of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure, internal NHS Workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within your employing organisation; to be used by Recruitment for purposes of checking your Professional Registration online (where applicable).These processes are in line with Fair and Lawful processing in line with current Data Protection Legislation especially those in relation to your personal or sensitive personal data (sensitive personal data is defined as any declared physical or mental health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, trade union membership, political opinion, religious beliefs). As an organisation, we ensure that the legislation defining confidentiality is observed such as use of data for specific, defined purposes, and use of data that is relevant and not excessive whilst practicing data accuracy and security of all held personal identifiable information (PII)If you are successfully appointed, by completing the application form you authorise the UHB to obtain any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national Electronic Staff Record (ESR).To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK . If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.